Tl;dr Here's what I did:
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I have junk food addiction, gorge on it and waste a lot of money.
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Mostly motivated myself with money and looks, health was secondary.
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I decided to go easy on myself and make this process as easy and simple as possible; never punish myself.
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No snacks of any kind at the apartment, only eat things I prepare myself from ingredients, fridge full at all times to reduce temptation.
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Cut out added sugar after some time.
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Never exercise or count calories.
End of tl;dr
I am still not at the weight that allows me to run, and I personally see little difference, but I am no longer obese and people are often telling me there's a difference. I'm over half way to what is considered normal weight.
I have a food addiction in which I will eat all the snacks I have until there is none left. I am unable to buy less than five bags of chips at a time. And I would usually do that almost every day. I tried to stop many times, this is the only time when I actually succeeded for more than a month or so. I would also eat a lot of pizza, like every other day a 45cm pizza on my own.
What motivated me was being able to save all the money I would otherwise spend on junk food. I've been able to save up quite a lot comparatively, and the money eased one if my most helpful motivations. I would also like to look better. I don't really care about health, with the exception of taking some weight off my bad knees so I can run again, but I'm honest with myself that this isn't the most important thing to me. I've decided to use ad mitigation the things that I actually care about and nor chastise myself for telling vain or something.
Also, a very important thing that helped me, and one that is probably what most strongly differentiates this attempt from the failed ones, is that I've decided to be easy on myself. To not give a damn. I didn't set out to fix everything about my life. I allowed myself to say up as long as I want in the night, play video games and watch YouTube for hours, if it meant it would be easier to keep myself from eating junk food. I was also allowed to go out for a pizza a few times a month and not feel bad about it.
Another important thing was no snacks of any kind in the apartment. No chips, ice cream, waffles, candy, nuts, not anything that comes in pieces and doesn't require preparation. On the other hand I make sure that my fridge is always full of healthy food that takes little time to prepare, in car I have a tough moment. The actual meals I eat are still big, but what's important is that only eat things I have to prepare, and things that are in finite portions instead of infinite. I later added fruit because that's a snack that doesn't make me gorge but allows me to sort of weaken the compulsion.
After several weeks I also cut out added sugar from everything, and done so successfully except for maybe pizza which probably has sugar, but I don't eat it often.
I haven't always kept the diet perfectly, I had periods what I would eat much more pizza than reasonable. But I never ate any snacks even once. I also find it very easy to register cake and similar sound when I'm with family or friends, maybe because it makes me look like I have a lot of willpower and I enjoy that image. Christmas was abundant with things to eat but at that period I actually lost more than in any other two weeks.
I don't exercise, I don't count calories. I might have to start the latter towards the end of the road.
Damn is this long. It's more of a journal entry for me but someone might find it interesting or even useful. So here you go.
I don't have any pictures for a year ago, sorry.
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